WordPress for iPhone 2.2 has been submitted to Apple, fully tested against today’s iPhone OS 3.1.3 update. We’ll let you know once we’ve been approved!
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Matt Thomas
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Matt Thomas
With full realization that whatever Apple is doing today will block out the sun, much less all other iPhone-related news, we just wanted to let everyone know that we’ve wrapped up development of WordPress for iPhone 2.2 and are testing it now. We plan to submit it to Apple for review by the end of the week.
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Matt Thomas
This blog’s been quiet lately, but we’ve been hard at work identifying what to tackle for the next version of the app. Keeping in mind our “ship and iterate” mantra, we’re focusing on 3 specific features: Replying to comments, highlighting pending comments, and editing comments.
- http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/155 (Reply to comments, new comment detail view)
- http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/292 (Highlight pending in comment list)
- http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/293 (Edit comments)These are some of our most-requested features, so we’re excited to get them to you. You can follow the progress of the 2.2 milestone in Trac for the most up-to-date information. As always, your comments and contributions are welcome.
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R. Scott Clark
I’m not sure where to post this but Apple told me to contact wordpress about the app for iPhone
I’m trying to use 2.1
No odd characters in the URL
Unable to add a wp.com blog
I get the error message:
We could not find the XML-RPC service for your blog.
Please check your network connection and try again.”
Help!
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Raanan Bar-Cohen
Hi Scott – if you could post to a few details to http://iphone.forums.wordpress.org/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting we can definitely take a look.
I also looked at your blog (http://heidelblog.wordpress.com/) and everything looked to be in order. Perhaps try again a couple of times, as this error may indicate a network/data connection issue that perhaps was ongoing when you tried to add the blog.
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john
Scott,
I replied on the how-to forum. Ping me there at your convenience…
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john
Scott said it worked fine on a re-try.
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MNT
Excellent!
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Jose
I’ve used WP for a variety of projects for years and was happy to see this app for a journalism client. However, and please correct me if I’m wrong: there is no way to click in basic HTML like blockquote, strong, a, etc. Reading through these threads I see great interest for commenting and other social functions but not for basic blogging tasks. Am I right?
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MNT
Rich text editing on the iPhone is kind of the holy grail. I think there’s lots of improvement for writing in our app, for sure. That said, even the best iPhone text editor is going to probably be inferior for most people to a full-sized computer. So we’ve concentrated so far on the things that are really easy to do on the phone, and comments is great for that.
Beyond the comment work we’ve scheduled for 2.2, we’re discussing changes to some of the underlying bits of the app to help with speed and stability, followed by the really fun stuff — video, geo, more options for photos, rich text editing, etc.
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Raanan Bar-Cohen
@Jose. With the current app you can enter in HTML, but we don’t have anything built-in that would do a blockquote or strong with a single click, but you could use
<em>strong text</em>
for example.
We have also talked about using markdown to enhance this capability: http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/58
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Jose
Thank you both for the responses. I’ve been putting the app to much use so please don’t read my requests as complaints. (though two drafts have disappeared upon hitting “save”.) someone elsewhere suggested taking advantage of an additional keyboard screen to make handy a half dozen or so common HTML tags. That would be great. Again, just basic blogging needs like blockquote, bold, a, etc. (having to add that “:” to “http” in order to trigger the link builder is kind of odd. Why not just http? Etc).
Thanks again. I’d pay for this app. Especially with a few more conveniences
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john
Thanks for the kudos and suggestions! I guess http: differentiates between the (admittedly rare) use of “http” in the actual prose of the post and an actual URL… We’ll take it under advisement to lose the need for typing the colon.
I am concerned about losing drafts when hitting save – could you give me a bit more detail?
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Jose
It’s happened twice in about 10 clean uses. I believe in both cases I had successfully created a local draft. Upon returning and revising same for final publication (adding a title, category) and then hitting save I was returned to the edit directory listing and the post was gone. I suspect that had I set the post status (e.g., published, pending, etc) it would have retained them. I also believe it might be saving in the context of those “header” parts that could be the culprit for me. Thanks!!!
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john
Thanks Jose – I can’t reproduce, but as you say – it only happened twice in ten uses… What do you mean by “header” parts?
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Jose N. Marquez
Header meaning title, categories, tags, etc.
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Starlight
I have just download the apps. and like the features that the blog can be view in a page in my iphone. I think I will change my blogger blog to wordpress. But what disappoint me is it lack some ‘what u see is what u get’ features since I don’t know any HTML. Hope it can be improved in next version.
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MNT
We’re not actively working on WYSIWYG features for the editor for the next version, but we agree it’d be great to have and plan to work on that in the future.
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Chris
Since WordPress 2.9 came out, I’ve been thinking about a something that could be built into the mobile versions (iPhone and BlackBerry): upgrade plugins from within the mobile app. Now that there is a way to upgrade all plugins, it seems like this would be easy to add. Would anyone else use this?
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svartling
Please add TextExpander Touch Support! It’s free todo that. Here is the SDK: http://smileonmymac.com/downloads/teTouchSDK_1.1.2.zip
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John Bickerstaff
Is this stand-alone or would the user need to buy the TextExpander app as well?
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svartling
You have the buy the TextExpander app, but that is not a reason ti build in support for it. Exactly as Twitterlator, Tweetie, SimplyTweet any many already done. The user can simply decide if they want to use that feature and then buy the app.
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svartling
It would be really cool if your app could be the first blog editor to support it. Then we all can use markup, html and other long snippets directly in the WordPress app very easy.
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svartling
Read more about the app it’self here: http://www.smileonmymac.com/TextExpander/touch/ See all other apps that has implemented it here: http://www.smileonmymac.com/TextExpander/touch/applist.html
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Matt Thomas
We try to keep the new feature process pretty democratic, so it may be a while, as there’s a good handful of more-requested features still on our list. That said, I see the appeal and we can consider this kind of stuff in a future release (creating a Trac ticket is a good way to make sure it’s not forgotten: http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/)
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Matt Thomas
I received word from Apple that WordPress for iPhone 2.1 has been approved, and should show up in the App Store soon. Post on the announcement blog is forthcoming…
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sc0ttkclark
Are there any plans on integrating some sort of API for plugins (installed on Self-hosted WP sites) so that ‘panels’ or some sort of options can appear within the WP app for them?
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MT
John or Joseph can say for sure, but my hunch is that it’d require some work in WordPress core, too. But it sounds like an excellent candidate for inclusion!
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Scott Kingsley Clark
I’m very interested in this and can help out if necessary. I’ll start by scoping out what I think other plugin developers would find most useful and then begin developing some php for review that would accomplish it.
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John Bickerstaff
It’s a very interesting idea and I’d like to talk some more about it. As MT says, we’d need some kind of “handle” via XMLRPC to be able to manipulate whatever parts and pieces you and the other plugin developers would like to have exposed in the app.
I’ll be looking forward to hearing about what you find out!
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Fausto Fernos
Any plans on allowing commenting on your own blog, or responding to comments?
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Fausto Fernos
Whoops, just saw the post below- thanks!
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John Bickerstaff
Yes – reply to comments is in the next release cycle.
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Niall Kennedy
Text on main page should read “iPod touch” instead of “iPod Touch” to match Apple’s branding.
Should the App Store link move to the new iTunes Preview URL structure?
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Raanan Bar-Cohen
oh good catch — “yes” to both of those items.
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MT
I think we can go even shorter — the shortlinks just weren’t working when I updated the links to the new app. http://itunes.com/app/wordpress2 is as short as it gets. Good call on the “Touch.”
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Matt Thomas
We’ve identified our major priorities for version 2.2:
- Reply to comments (Trac ticket #155)
- Swipe to moderate comments (#283)
- Sign up for a new blog (#45)
- SSL handling (#232)
- Custom fields support (#13)
- Write UI updates (#42, #127, #269)
This isn’t a final list, obviously, just our initial priorities as we move forward. You can help influence this list, particularly by writing code for the features you want (HTTP authentication made it into 2.1 because of just this kind of effort.)
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Edufracked
Takimg suggestions for version 2.3? Something like global dashboard, color-coded/easily differentiated post types (ie pubished, draft, scheduled) and tracking stats
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MT
Always! We take all feedback into consideration, but the most effective route is to comment on an open ticket for the feature you want, or create a new one if no one’s brought it up yet.
For example, here are tickets for separating posts by type and stats.
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The Lazy Aussie
It’s generally useless until you can reply to comments. What’s the point of it otherwise? Forget about ANY of that other peripheral stuff until you have the basics done.
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MT
Every user has their own #1 priority for our future development, but lucky for you, we share yours. The list I posted above is what we’ll be working on for 2.2, in order of importance. If replying to comments is ready to go before everything else, we’ll be happy to go ahead and submit it to the App Store as an update unto itself.
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Matt Thomas
Version 2.1 was submitted to Apple on Friday! We’ll let you know when it’s made it to iTunes.
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Matt Thomas
We’ve managed to package a bit more than expected into the release that’s just about ready, so we’re going to christen it 2.1 on Matt M.’s suggestion. Swipe to delete, HTTP authentication, and the requisite bugfixes should make a pretty solid point release.
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Matt Thomas
Holding off on submitting until we’re sure we’ve got the final issue sorted out with deleting pages on 2.9/wpcom. The delay may give us time to incorporate our first patch! Going to review jeffstieler’s patch for HTTP authentication after he’s had a chance to upload the files tomorrow.
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John Bickerstaff
I’m getting errors when attempting to apply the patch – both in my SmartSVN GUI tool and the command line… @MT were you able to apply the patch?
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John Bickerstaff
Big thanks to jeffstieler for the http auth code!
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Jeff Stieler
No problem guys! Glad I could contribute something useful!
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Matt Thomas
We’re very close to closing the final ticket for version
2.0.12.1 http://iphone.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1We should be on track to submit 2.1 to the App Store sometime tomorrow.
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John Bickerstaff
I think we’re there… Found a similar issue with Pages (have to delete twice on WPCOM) MT and Joseph are aware… Once that’s done, we can probably release.
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john and 5 others are discussing. 
PetersOpinion 12:25 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink |
I’m really looking forward to the new release. Hopefully it will solve my major issue I’m facing today. I’m using the iPhone app for 4 blogs. Whenever I saved a post I don’t manage to edit it again within the app, although the post is online. Even worse, saving it again deletes the content of the already online post.
If you managed to solve this issue I believe you offer the best WordPress iPhone editor.
Matt Thomas 7:35 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink |
That definitely doesn’t sound right, Peter! Try posting about your issue in the forum, along with detailed info about your setup. We’ll try to figure out what’s causing your grief.
Michael 1:52 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink |
did you manage to include any button in writing section to insert commonly used tag like , blockquote, text formatting like , did see that available on android version
Michael 1:54 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink |
oops, the comment takes html tag, it’s missing from the comment and makes the last words bold. tag like paragraphs, bold / italic text, blockquotes.
Matt Thomas 7:39 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink |
We’ve thought a lot about how to make text formatting better on the iPhone. The app doesn’t yet have the ability to help with rich text or HTML formatting, but it’s something we hope to add in a future version.
PetersOpinion 7:31 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink |
You can include html tags in your text, like
<strong>Text</strong>for bold. I know it’s not so convenient, but at least it’s possible to use it. Besides I didn’t find any other iPhone editor which offers that functionality in a better way.Matt Thomas 7:41 am on February 5, 2010 Permalink |
Thanks Peter — I edited your comment; HTML gets interpreted by the form.
Michael 2:31 am on February 7, 2010 Permalink |
i do agree that wordpress app for iphone is a full-fledge html editor just like its online version and i’ve posted many post using it as well. I also don’t mind writing style formatting like margin, alignment etc because it’s mostly text and common punctuation that’s easily accessible, the one that’s hard to access is actually the opening and closing tag like . it does slowdown the writing a bit
i don’t think a rich text editor is practical on the iphone, maybe on the ipad
, but i do like when i saw the android version has paragraph and blockquote tag button available for quick insertion. it does take one line of space to create this extra features but maybe there’s a better way in iPhone SDK to implement it? maybe a customized keyboard when we press the 123 button it will switch to a custom keyboard which display html tags instead.
oh, last bit, it’s also best to implement shortcodes for quicker access to insert repeated stuff and it works flawlessly in wordpress app for iphone, best for ad insertions I guess
sofarhu 12:14 am on February 9, 2010 Permalink |
just downloaded. “Validating blog”, then quits
iphone 3gs os3.1.3
Michael 2:32 am on February 9, 2010 Permalink |
wordpress 2.2 is out